2015 Mina stampede

When

24 Sep 2015

Kind

Crowd crush

Coordinates

21.42° N, 39.88° E

Description

Crowd crush incident

Deaths

2411

Injured

934

Crowd crush incident in Saudi Arabia

On 24 September 2015, a fatal crowd crush resulted in the death of more than 2,000 individuals, many of whom were suffocated or crushed, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history. Estimates of the number of dead vary: the Associated Press reported 2,411 dead, while Agence France-Presse reported 2,236 killed.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A crush during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca kills at least 2,200 people and injures more than 900 others, with more than 650 missing”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einer Massenpanik im Rahmen des diesjährigen Haddsch werden in Minā mehr als 700 Menschen getötet und mehr als 800 werden verletzt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “une bousculade à Mina, en marge du pèlerinage à La Mecque, fait plus de 700 morts”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в результате давки в долине Мина близ Мекки (Саудовская Аравия) погибли 717 исламских паломников, 863 человека пострадали”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “24 سبتمبر حادثة تدافع منى 2015 أثناء الحج في مكة في السعودية يسفر عن مصرع أكثر 700 حاج وإصابة 800 حاج آخر”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2015年麦加朝觐踩踏事故”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page